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1851
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1878 - 1883
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1883
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El Rengle Market
Civil construction with a longitudinal rectangular plan covered by a flat roof, in the centre of which a barrel vault that occupies its entire length rises. It consists of a central corridor and a row of sales stalls on each side, and on the outside there are also stops. The stalls are separated by cast iron columns that support the roof. The set stands out especially for its vault, which also serves as ventilation once the stalls are closed. The front façades and the plinth of the building are clad in marble, and the interior of the building is decorated with glazed ceramics with tiles that form stripes of colours that make it more noticeable. The market was designed by the architect from Mataró Emili Cabanyes, and opened on the 5th of June, 1892. A year later, Josep Puig i Cadafalch designed and executed the remodelling of the roof, which gave its current appearance. In 1979, it was restored by the architects Isidre Molsosa and Montserrat Torres. It is a very characteristic building in Mataró which receives the popular name of "the train" due to its elongated shape. For the same reason, it is also popularly known as "the line" or "the tram".1892
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Miquel Parera Pertegàs House
Civil building attached to two side buildings. It consists of a ground floor and two floors. A balcony runs the width of the façade at the height of the first floor. The complex stands out for the use of historicist neogothic decorative elements, as is the case of the crowning of the building – especially the upper windows, which are decorated with profusely ornamented arches with sculpture: arches, floral elements, etc. The façade is covered with high-quality sgraffitos.1894
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La Confianza Shop
Former ‘fideueria’ or pasta and oil shop. "La Confianza", has a modernist decoration and preserves practically all the elements that Puig i Cadafalch designed – tempera on paper, display cases, showcases and oil tanks. On the outside, the tiles and irons that make up the store's name are also preserved. The state of conservation is precarious, especially with regard to the frescoes, which are quite damaged by humidity, and also to the decorative elements of the wardrobes. In the window, some wrought iron that held the baskets of vegetables is missing. Decorative elements It was designed by Puig i Cadafalch in 1896 at the request of the owner, Francesc Palomer. It basically consists of cupboards with showcases, the sideboard, wallpaper on the walls and a plaster frieze. The cabinets and display cases, made of wood with glass doors, were used to display the different types of pasta and semolina. They are elongated vertically with decorations that make them look like little chapels. The sideboard is made of marble, and on the outside there are some forged irons destined for the sacks of legumes. The walls of the store are decorated with wallpaper in three different colours, representing the repeated drawing of a Gothic cross. On the wall, just above the warehouse door, there is a small plaster frieze in the form of a garland, where the owner's name, F. Palomar, and the year 1896 are engraved. Probably from an earlier period are the oil tanks, with a sink and a metal grate. As indicated by a plaster frieze inside, the decoration was carried out in 1896, when it was owned by Francesc Palomer and the designer Josep Puig i Cadafalch. It is currently a grocery store, run by the Pinós family.1896
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Joaquim Coll i Regàs House
The plans of the project are signed by Antoni Maria Gallissà because in 1896 Puig i Cadafalch was no longer the municipal architect because of his bad relationship with the Mataró City Council. The house skillfully combines a wide range of ornamental languages, such as sculpture, glass, sgraffitos and ceramics. The stone is not only used to frame the openings, but serves to incorporate the carvings of the sculptor Arnau, who sculpted two relevant figures: the first one is on the tympanum of the door and represents a girl wearing a spindle, a textile emblem that alludes to the owner's industry, while the second figure is at the foot of one of the arches and is the usual Saint George. The rest of the façade is covered with graffiti, and the tribune stands outs, with Nordic reminiscences. The staggered crowning announces the profile of Barcelona’s Amatller House.1896 - 1898
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Sant Josep Residence
Building that borders the old Red Cross and the old Carmelite convent, now the parish of Sant Josep. It is part of the charity space that will be located in the city at the beginning of the 20th century. The building, owned by the City Council, follows the noucentista style, built in 1912 with modernist elements. The upper windows and the tribune at the entrance are worth noting, which give it a certain similarity with the building next door, by Puig i Cadafalch (Red Cross). Despite everything, the conception of the structure of the house responds to a much more rational, functional and institutionalised line. According to the Heritage Catalogue, where it is included, the façade and the volumes are protected, the interiors being subject to change. Sgrafittos Newly created on the façades, designed and made by the artist Parés de Mataró at the beginning of 1988 on the occasion of the renovation works on the interior and exterior of the building. The sgraffitos occupy approximately 600 m of drawing. When he was entrusted with the project, Parés made 4 preliminary designs, a moderate modernist one, one with flowers, a noucentista one and a simple one. The architect Martí Coll chose the first, the most flowery modernism. The motifs are basically flowers and waves, which can be seen in the borders that surround the building. On the west façade, the coat of arms of Catalonia and the staff of Sant Josep stand out, as the charity still depends on the parish. Like the building attached to the convent, the location of the municipal charity and the old people's asylum was granted to the city council in 1942. The origin of the asylum is due to a provision of the General Captain of the Principality, ordering all the towns to collect all the elderly and poor and give them shelter in 1836. The municipal buildings were insufficient, since there was a primary school for poor girls in the same place, and the current municipal charity of Sant Josep was built in 1912, with an entrance through the wall of Sant Llorenç.1906 - 1912
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Mataró Municipal Slaughterhouse
Large enclosure bordered by Prat de la Riba, Herrera and Don Quijote Streets, where three buildings stand out: the tower, the slaughterhouses and the building at the entrance. It is part of the simpler lines that combine the tile, the plaster and the visible work, a style that could be considered late modernism. The set combines blue, green and brown. Recently, works have been carried out for the reuse of one of the warehouses of the slaughterhouse destined for the Municipal Laboratory. Included in the Catalogue of Artistic Heritage of the Mataró town hall, the façades, volumes and interiors are protected. It was built in 1915 on some plots away from the old city walls, since until that time the functions of the slaughterhouse were carried out in the Plaça Gran, in the market. It was the most important work of Melcior de Palau i Simón, "and his project was approved and exhibited to the public in 1911. It was the first slaughterhouse of this style in the peninsula, and it conformed to the norms of hygiene and capacity".1909 - 1915
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1918 - 1920
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1924 - 1926
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1967 - 1969
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1969
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Finca Mas Ribera
Located in an urbanisation in El Maresme, the Ribera houses are made up of two homes intended for two brothers and a home for the watchmen. The buildings have similar characteristics and share a level in order to obtain the best views towards the sea, located at a certain distance. Respectful of the environment, the two houses, facing south and east, are semi-buried on the hillside, without giving up good sunlight. With the same desire for integration, the plastering of the houses and the pavilion is a dark red tone that harmonises with the green of the landscape. One of the houses integrates into its composition a pre-existing water pond, which had been used to irrigate the land. Access by car to the two houses is through the roof, a point close to the garage - in this way it is guaranteed that the visuals from the interior open up to the plan of the plot and towards the distant sea, without visual contact with the cars. The watchmen's house, an independent unit of these, has a characteristic shape in order to integrate into the whole and the landscape, and generates a large open inner courtyard.1968 - 1973
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Edifici Comercial Ilurogar
MBM Arquitectes, Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, David Mackay, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
Es tracta d'un edifici comercial dedicat a la venda de mobiliari, objectes de regal i articles d'esport nàutic. El volum és determinat exclusivament per les màximes possibilitats d'edificació de la zona i les alineacions dels carrers existents. L'entorn urbà no té cap característica especial, tret del fet que la façana principal és immediata a l'autopista de la costa Barcelona-Mataró. Aquest volum sense funcionalitat de detall específica s'intenta assimilar a una simple superfície contínua sense les ruptures que representa el pas d'una planta a una altra. Per això, se subdivideix en quatre sectors que van ascendint en cargol, amb mínimes diferències de nivell. D'aquesta manera, el visitant va circulant per tot el conjunt sense canviar de planta i segons una fluència contínua. Al centre, hi ha una circulació ràpida vertical, la forma de la qual geomètrica serveix també per generar l'esquema general dels sectors ascendents en creu esvàstica. Exteriorment l'edifici té l'aspecte d'un objecte únic amb autonomia plàstica. L'absència d'obertures concentra l'atenció sobre la planta baixa, íntegrament de vidre, que adquireix el valor d'aparador. La subdivisió de la vidriera no venia exigida per cap raó funcional: s'ha fet amb tota arbitrarietat, seguint el ritme del cant dels violoncels de l'allegretto de la Setena Simfonia da Beethoven. Un gran anunci lluminós manté l'atenció i accentua el caràcter de símbol des de la carretera i l'entorn més llunyà. A la rigorosa geometria del volum se li han superposat les instal·lacions d'aire condicionat la presència de les quals s'emfatitza a la planta coberta, que es pot convertir temporalment en exposició a l'aire lliure.1971 - 1974
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Puig i Cadafalch Residential Street Block
Studio PER, Lluís Clotet i Ballús, Oscar Tusquets Blanca
A high voltage line forced the definition of a protection zone parallel to one of the streets and displaced the built volume so that from this restriction a generous semi-public space was organised which was treated as a vestibule of the two important vertical accesses to the homes. Its proximity and openness to the street and its visual relationship with a large avenue in front of it gave it greater breadth and a better connection with the city. The project can be seen as an effort to adapt the simple model of the block to a complex plot of a Mediterranean city in which the corners are fundamental. The relationship between the components, the small gestures in the headers and some change in the width of the blocks allowed the construction to help define the surrounding streets, which were not orthogonal to each other. It was a work that continued with the concern for the generous and dignified dimensions of the common accesses, and in which the desire to offer maximum freedom in the use of the homes appeared for the first time, conceived as rectangular spaces in plan, free of any accident structural or facilities and with gaps in the façade that did not predetermine any use and allowed them all.1970 - 1975
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1975
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Local d'Actes i Espectacles El Casal
L'edificació existent i sobre la qual s'havia de desenvolupar l'encàrrec, era vella, espatllada per la introducció al llarg del temps de petits usos implantats en ubicacions improvisades, i parcialment en ruïna per una manca de control i manteniment. El treball consistia, per una banda, a reformar i modernitzar les parts importants de l'edifici com la sala d'actes I els seus accessos, la cafeteria, els nuclis d'accessos verticals etc. i. per altra banda, posar ordre i sanejar la totalitat de l'edifici davant el desgavell organitzatiu I la distribució laberíntica de les dependències. Va ésser una operació costosa en tots els sentits perquè els objectius a assolir amb la reforma eren confosos i patien també d'una certa improvisació. Jo encara estudiava arquitectura, i la curta experiència en aquest camp i la complexitat del tema va donar com a resultat una intervenció plena de bones intencions però amb resultats mediocres. A la gent, però, li va agradar, com sempre passa el nou sempre és maco, i les rehabilitacions d'antigues edificacions sempre són benvingudes. -
1979
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1980
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El Cros and Les Aigües Schools
A layout determines the location of the two schools, and perpendicular to this layout different linear pavilions appear that generate a diversity of outdoor spaces. The conviction that public facilities buildings can and must act as structuring elements of the territory is a basic starting point of this project. The suburban situation of the land and the personal vision of the city lead to propose a building model of an urbanised and colonised estate in the image of the extensive urban territorial settlements of the late 19th century. The option of this type of building in the form of a "tapestry" makes it possible to find a flexible and domestic school building. We say flexible because mesh circulations, due to their neutrality, enable many types of pedagogical operation; and domestic because the dimensions and specific character of the different interior-exterior spaces lead to the individualisation of each one of them. The tapestry building in the form of a comb, with a single floor, adheres and closes towards the external road and opens neatly towards the interior of the plot with small semi-basements. At the end of the building there are the common spaces and perpendicular to these spaces, the janitors' homes and the classroom pavilions are emerging, along with the outdoor spaces: promenades, gardens/classrooms, squares, ponds, gardens, and patios. Both the supporting structure of the ceramic walls and the resulting spaces are the result of a strict reflection on the construction process, as are the materials used and their finishes.1983 - 1986
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Casa M
La casa unifamiliar de la família Corts fou construïda sobre un solar llarg i estret com les cases de cós del barri antic de Mataró. Situada al carrer Sant Sadurní, amb el qual es relaciona mitjançant uns espais filtres que permeten fer una transició de l'interior a l'exterior a la vegada que componen la façana principal. Cal destacar el redisseny de les gelosies com a homenatge a un element tan arrelat a la nostra cultura i a la llum del Mediterrani. Un dels principals reptes del projecte va ésser il·luminar tota la casa amb l lum natural, malgrat els condicionants del solar, per aconseguir-ho es va fer un tall transversal al carener de la coberta creant un pati de llum, on se situa l'escala de vidre, que permet il·luminar directament o indirectament tots els espais de la casa.1985 - 1986
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Centre Comercial La Parisina
Les directrius del projecte per a la realització del nou centre comercial la Parisina, a la Riera, propietat de la família Filbà, obeeixen bàsicament al màxim aprofitament de la superfície disponible a la planta baixa, així com als nous conceptes comercials; diversificació dels espais de vendes, una gran transparència dintre d'aquests espais, tot això conjuntat amb unes completes instal·lacions amb tots els elements necessaris i obligats pel tipus d'ús. La zona d'entrada i de vial públic, queda ubicada dins del centre geomètric de la planta rectangular, per dues raons, poder obtenir locals a dreta i esquerra i respectar les dues escales d'accés a la planta pis, la comunicació vertical de l'ascensor, tres elements inamovibles. En arribar al fons, el vial es desdobla en amplitud per aconseguir una doble circulaçió, i una major longitud de comunicació amb el local del fons. Aprofitem els dos serveis, privatitzant-ne un, i fent públic l'altre. Les escales queden tancades a l'ús públic i així, també, aconseguim un espai de planta baíxa aïllat de les altres plantes, mitjançant portes de seguretat. També aprofitem l'accés al local del carrer d'en Pujol per fer la sortida d'emergència obligada. Aquest projecte contempla les necessitats d'espai i disseny que, de sortida, foren estudiades dins de l'avantprojecte, i també la solució de les formes, materials i equipaments més necessaris i adients, i dota la planta baixa de les millors condicions com a local comercial. Als equipaments normals d'il·luminació, ventilació, aire condicionat, audifonia, s'afegeixen els de seguretat, comunicació interna per imatge i informàtica. Els materials escollits són nobles i simples en les seves formes, no s'ha buscat cap tipus de complicació, tot al contrari, una simplicitat de disseny, acompanyada d'una personalització dirigida exclusivament a la funcionalitat, al lluïment i l'ordenació en la col·locació de peces i complements a vendre. -
1987 - 1988